Teen drug slang is often used to make the distribution and usage of prescription or street drugs less noticeable. This sometimes is a challenge, but staying informed will help your family, school and community. Our addiction treatment center in South Florida also has ways to help teens recover from addiction in a way that can…

One of the many therapies that help in treatment are the fostering of new activities and discovering new ways to combat stress. Many times, addicts will spend a large portion of their time looking for more substance to take as well as being inhibited either mentally or physically by the substance when used. When this…

Addiction is an insidious disease that tends to start small. You may have felt in the past that you were fully in control of your drug use (whether legal or illegal) but now feel your life is spiraling away from you. Professionals at South Florida Rehab Centers are ready to help you clear your system…

Are you uncool? Me too! But guess what, nerdy is totally in these days. It can be hard to believe because if you’re my age, when I was a kid, “nerd” was totally a bad word, but these days it’s something you can embrace. Take a look at the television. It’s full of television shows…

With alcohol making its way into every social function on everyone’s calendars these days you may have to ask yourself, with drinking being so ubiquitous, is it really going to be a problem for me? Will it really negatively affect my life to abuse alcohol? It’s a way of life. It’s a culture. Let’s take…

Rehab is a scary place to go for the first time. You may have heard rumors about Residential Detox facilities. But you won’t truly know what to do or expect until you ask questions. One thing that a lot of people with addiction struggle with is being open about not knowing something. Keep in mind…

Knowing what to say to a friend who has been struggling with addiction is hard. It can feel like there is nothing good to do or say. But the most important thing to remember is that the worst thing you can say, is nothing at all. Silence feeds your friend’s shame. Speak up. Here are…

One of the biggest challenges to sober living is our environment. We must find ways to clean up that environment and also to find ways to cope with what we can’t control. The fact that it is external to us, however, makes this easier said than done. Some Common Situations You’re two months sober and…

Have you ever known someone who you thought had a serious alcohol problem which they denied? Or, have you ever been surprised by someone unexpectedly going into rehab? The line between problematic over-drinking and severe diagnosable alcoholism is one of severity. What is Alcohol Abuse? What qualifies as excessive drinking may vary depending on many…

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and was developed in the 1980s. Its original use pertained to retraining thoughts after traumatic events became too much for an individual to handle and works by reprocessing the traumatic information so that it is less harmful. Once considered to be only a technique, its effectiveness has…